Any person who shall willfully abstract, destroy, mutilate or deface any number or volume of such newspapers purchased in pursuance of Sections 4-40-7 and 4-40-8 NMSA 1978, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or imprisonment [imprisoned] in the county jail not more than six months, or [punished] both by such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 49, § 4; C.L. 1897, § 771; Code 1915, § 1244; C.S. 1929, § 33-4310; 1941 Comp., § 15-3711; 1953 Comp., § 15-39-11.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 4-40-2 - County clerk; bond.
Section 4-40-3 - [Duties; ex-officio clerk of board of county commissioners.]
Section 4-40-4 - [Duties as clerk of county commissioners.]
Section 4-40-5 - County clerk; duty regarding accounts.
Section 4-40-6 - [Duties as to orders for money.]
Section 4-40-7 - [Newspaper subscriptions.]
Section 4-40-8 - To keep file of newspapers.
Section 4-40-9 - [Newspapers; payment of expenses.]
Section 4-40-10 - [Newspapers; abstraction, mutilation or destruction; penalty.]